First, there is the speed at which the Tory's flagship policy of allowing all schools to apply to be academies is being brought in (Analysis, pages 10-11). A couple of points here - nursery schools are not part of the programme, which could well be bad news for high-quality nursery education and denote that this stage is not seen as a separate part of mainstream education.
The nursery and reception classes of primary schools will be part of any move to academy status, however, which begs the question of whether such schools will be able to effectively opt out of the EYFS and will lose local authority support.
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